In the News (Thu 22 Feb 18)

Bruce was prime minister in a period of reasonable stability for the Australian economy, and the Coalition's policies for developing industry and agriculture won them victory in 1925, the first election when voting was compulsory.

Bruce allocated funds to hasten the development of Canberra as the National Capital, and in May 1927 the provisional Parliament House opened; the House would remain provisional for 61 years.

Bruce's downfall was the 1929 Maritime Industries Bill, aimed at handing over arbitration to the states except in the case of the maritime industries.

Bruce's chief proposition was that the constitution should be altered in such a way as to hand over all power dealing with the regulation of the terms and conditions of employment, and the rights and duties of employers and employees in all industrial matters to authorities to be established by the Commonwealth.

Bruce's first reaction to the pressure of big business was to suggest to the premiers that they should hand over all their industrial powers to the Commonwealth.

Bruce tartly replied that if he wanted know whether it was true that Hughes and Mann would not in future be invited to attend meetings of government supporters, the answer was in the affirmative.

Bruce's chief proposition was that the constitution should be altered in such a way as to hand over all power dealing with the regulation of the terms and conditions of employment, and the rights and duties of employers and employees in all industrial matters to authorities to be established by the Commonwealth.

Bruce's first reaction to the pressure of big business was to suggest to the premiers that they should hand over all their industrial powers to the Commonwealth.

Bruce tartly replied that if he wanted know whether it was true that Hughes and Mann would not in future be invited to attend meetings of government supporters, the answer was in the affirmative.

Typically firm and efficient in the role, one of Bruce’s early proposals was to reduce the salaries of members of parliament.

Bruce saw the time as ripe for a businessmen's government, and wanted British immigration to build up the workforce, British loan capital to fuel the economy and utilise the British markets for Australian primary produce.

Bruce claimed the country was "not heading for inevitable disaster" but, by mid-1929, everyone sensed that disaster lay ahead.

BRUCE, STANLEYMELBOURNE, Viscount Bruce of Melbourne (1883-1967), businessman, prime minister and public servant, was born on 15 April1883 at St Kilda, Victoria, youngest of five children of John Munro Bruce and his wife Mary Ann, née Henderson.

Bruce had come into business at the top but he acquired a thorough knowledge of the firm's operations; in 1910 he returned to Australia to act as general manager while Ernest was overseas.

At heart Bruce may have been a centralist; in practice his aim was the elimination of friction between Australia's seven governments, the provision of adequate fiscal sources for the States, and the creation of machinery to set guidelines for public borrowing.

Bruce excluded W.M. Hughes from meetings of parliamentary Nationalist Party on 22 August 1929 for voting with Labor in a motion censuring the government for dropping the prosecution of John Brown, a Newcastle coal 'baron' who had closed his mines in a lock-out of miners.

Bruce remained actively involved in public life after concluding a period as High Commissioner, serving as chairman of the World Food Council from 1947 to 1951, chairman of the Finance Corporation for Industry Ltd from 1947-57, and the foundation Chancellor of the Australian National University from 1952 to 1961.

When the hipster comedian Lenny Bruce was arrested for obscenity in New York City in 1964, he was publicly defended as a social satirist in the tradition of Swift, Rabelais, and Twain and as a Savonarola of fl humor.

Bruce himself noted, All my humor is based on destruction and despair. His irreverence fostered the cynical routines used by almost all...

With the grace of a dancer and the skill of a master fighter, actor Bruce Lee brought martial arts movies to mainstream cinema in the 1970s, a time when the United States was becoming increasingly interested in Eastern culture.

The trigger for the move by Tory Prime Minister StanleyBruce to seize control of industrial powers from the states was Piddington's decision in the NSW commission to introduce the 44-hour week, which enraged the bourgeoisie.

Bruce's proposal in 1926 was surrounded by the same kind of rhetoric as Howard's is today about getting rid of the anarchy of divided systems, and the virtues of freedom of contract.

Billy Hughes, who hated Bruce and was still smarting over his removal from the Tory leadership, had a certain nostalgic interest in preserving the arbitration system, which had been one of the achievements, from his point of view, of the period when he was a Labor leader before the conscription split of 1916.

StanleyMelbourneBruce was perfectly suited to the elegance and confidence of his period — the ‘Roaring Twenties’.

Ethel Bruce was as stylish and dignified a figure as her husband.

SM Bruce became Australia’s longest-serving High Commissioner in London and his work at the League of Nations laid the foundations of enduring international agencies.

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Political Philosophy for James Bruce Stanley(Site not responding. Last check: )

James BruceStanley's political philosophy is founded on his involvement in community issues and his education.

Stanley's involvement in the Donelson-Hermitage Neighborhood Association at that time educated him on the necessities of being accessible and open to the concerns and desires of his constituents.

Stanley's political philosophy can be summarized by stating that he views his election to the Metropolitan Council as representing the constituents of District 14 and addressing their concerns immediately through cooperation.

Typically firm and efficient in the role, one of Bruce's early proposals was to reduce the salaries of members of parliament.

Bruce's government fostered the increasing power of the federal government over the states; for example, establishing the Loan Council which gave the federal government greater financial control.

Bruce saw the time as ripe for a businessmen's government, and wanted British immigration to build up the workforce, British loan capital to fuel the economy and utilise the British markets for Australian primary produce.

Stanley instructed his church that the way to fight the apostasy was to starve it out by refusing to give to the SBC's Cooperative Program.

Stanley is also involved in another ecumenical evangelism organization -- the CoMission, a coalition of over 60 "evangelical" groups chaired by Bruce Wilkinson, the ecumenical head of Walk Thru The Bible Ministries and author of the name-it-and-claim-it best seller, The Prayer of Jabez..

Stanley's Personality Profile is merely another psychological testing/personality typing gimmick, of which all such tests have been proven in the past to have insufficient statistical validity or reliability, either in measuring personality traits or in using such traits to successfully motivate or modify behavior.